Chapter 19: The Story

It's another cliché story, Cinderella and Prince Charming have feelings for each other, but the ending is not that they have lived a happy life since then, people always say that creation makes people, in fact, it is creation that tricks people, and those who can't grasp the erratic happiness are often the people themselves, and Xiang Ke's father Shen Yaojun is not exempt from vulgarity.

As the only son of Shen Shenghua, chairman of Shengshi Group, Shen Yaojun actually fell in love with Xiang Yun, a singer who sang in the bar. Everyone thinks that they are just dewy and playing, but the two of them unconsciously recognize the truth. Shen Yaojun's grand confession to Xiang Yun was a sensation back then, and it is still the talk of people's after-dinner gossip in the past few years.

Xiang Yun, who was immersed in happiness, thought that she was really favored by the goddess of fate, and since then she has been living happily with Cinderella, a princess and a prince, but she doesn't know that the trap of fate has just begun, and she has nowhere to escape in the face of the big net of life.

When everyone thought that Shen Yaojun would definitely marry Xiang Yun, Shengshi Group announced the marriage of Shen Yaojun and Mayor Lu Feng's daughter Lu Furong in a high-profile manner, and the photos of the two attending major cocktail parties at the same time once again made headlines in major media. Xiang Yun was like Cinderella who broke into the ball on a crystal slipper, making a grand appearance, but disappeared from everyone's sight. Leaving the aura of Shengshi Group, Xiang Yun could only return to the bar to continue singing to make a living, and she was born proud to use the child in her womb as a threat in order to keep her changed lover. It's just that how can the wealthy housewife who wants to marry the mayor's family tolerate such a foundationless marriage, since the child's mother is not recognized, the child is naturally not recognized.

Desperate, Xiang Yun finally discovered that her love was so vulnerable, she was stubborn and decided to raise the little life in her womb alone, the Shen family could not recognize him, everyone in the world thought he was a wild seed, how could she bear to abandon him as a mother? Relying on the meager income earned by singing herself, Xiang Yun gritted her teeth and raised Xiang Ke to be sunny and handsome.

Xiang Ke's childhood was undoubtedly poor, his mother had no money to buy him any toys and snacks, and although his life was poor, the life of the mother and son was quite happy. Except occasionally, Xiang Ke was bullied by other children, and when he came back crying and asked Xiang Yun for his father, the tears welling up in Xiang Yun's eyes made the precocious Xiang Ke understand that dad is a very heavy topic for mom, and for the sake of mom's happiness, he can do without dad.

Until one summer vacation, when he was playing with his children on the playground, an old man gave him all kinds of beautiful sweets to eat, and promised to take him to see his father, he was moved. For the first time in his life, he followed his grandfather back to his father's house without consulting his mother. What a luxurious home it was, a house a hundred times larger than the cottage he and his mother had lived in, and the room was full of toys and snacks, and his grandfather kindly told him that he would be the little master of the house from now on. As if he had suddenly fallen into heaven, Xiang Ke and the man known as Dad spent an entire afternoon playing in Grandpa's villa. It wasn't until it was completely dark that he remembered that his mother was still waiting for him to come home for dinner.

The naïve little Xiang Ke cautiously asked his father, can he bring his mother to live with him? Dad shook his head, but tears flowed uncontrollably. Dad's newly married woman asked Xiang Ke with a smile: "Is it okay for me to be your mother in the future?" “

Xiang Ke shook his head resolutely, how could such an important role as a mother be replaced? He insisted that his father take him back to the tattered little home with his mother. Grandpa got angry and warned Xiao Xiangke that this was his home and that he couldn't go back.

Xiao Xiangke cried angrily and wanted to find his mother, he refused to eat, and tore the toys sent by his subordinates and threw them on the ground. A few days later, looking at Xiao Xiang Ke who was hungry but still refused to eat, his father had no choice but to beg his grandfather to send him back to his home.

Xiang Ke finally returned home under the escort of his father, but his father didn't even have the courage to enter the house to see his mother. The moment his mother saw Xiao Xiang Ke Anran's return, he will always remember it in his heart, and there is no kind of pain, which is more heartbreaking than his mother losing her child. Xiang Yun waited in front of the door of the Shen family for two nights and no one paid attention to her, what kind of despair was that! They abandoned her, but they still took her only child, it was the second time they wanted her life!

From that day on, Xiao Xiang Ke seemed to have grown up suddenly, and his mother opened her heart to tell him about her past experience, and asked Xiang Ke to make a choice for herself, whether to continue to live a poor life with her impoverished mother, or to return to the rich father's house to be a young master. Although Xiang Ke was very young at that time, the scars of the past were still shocking and painful once they were revealed. At a young age, he was already able to understand the hardships of his mother's life, and he secretly vowed to be his mother's shoulder when he grew up, protect his mother, and shelter her from the wind and rain. But now, my mother's life is too hard, and I have to work hard to make money in order to support myself, even if there is an uncle with good conditions who is willing to associate with my mother, but when I see the already tall self at home, I choose to leave one by one. At that time, Xiang Ke Zeng naively thought that as long as he left his mother temporarily and didn't be his mother's oil bottle, he could even destroy the lives of his father and stepmother, and wait for his father to pick up his mother to live together, and one day, his mother would live a happy life. After some struggle, he finally chose to live with his father.

Hearing this, Lingche's heart couldn't help but tighten for a while, the young Xiang Ke didn't understand what his mother really needed, but a mistake was a mistake, and he couldn't make up for it, and when he understood, he was suffering a lot! She empathized with Xiang Yun's sadness, but she felt even more sorry for Xiang Ke at this time, he seemed to be strong, but what a huge shackle he was carrying in his heart and was walking alone.

In fact, Xiang Ke's life in the Shen family is not bad, his grandparents and father love him very much, but they are very busy, and it is rare to see each other. The most seen in the family are stepmother Lu Furong's cousin Shen Sijia and cousin Shen Ling. Shen Sijia, who was born with a golden spoon in her mouth since she was a child, has the common problem of being rude and willful like all young ladies. Xiang Ke's arrival took away half or more of the grandparents' love for her granddaughter. So at the beginning, she was hostile to Xiang Ke, and always found opportunities to bully Xiang Ke from time to time. Xiang Ke never took it to heart about the difficulties of girls, and after a few rounds, Shen Sijia had completely fallen at the feet of her smart and handsome cousin, always chasing Xiang Ke with her and her brother, and no longer caring about who grandma, grandfather and uncle loved more, it seems to be a good thing to have such a handsome brother to love herself! Shen Ling, since he was a child, he was sent to a foreign aristocratic school by his aunt, and it was rare to see him during the holidays. As for Lu Furong, getting along with Xiang Ke is not so happy. The two people have a faint hostility towards each other, and the more contact with each other, the more friction naturally occurs, and the two people often fight each other and fight constantly. In general, in this family, except for the hostess who did not welcome him, he had easily dealt with all the people up and down the Shen family. Just as he was planning to save enough pocket money to help his mother buy a beautiful new dress for her birthday, an accident happened.

No one knew what had happened, and when Xiang Yun's body was salvaged, it had been soaked in water for several days. The case could not be solved for a long time, and in the end, it could only be solved according to suicide. However, the one who was hit the hardest by this conclusion was naturally Xiang Ke. Why did mom kill herself? Did you do something wrong? How self-reproaching his little heart was!

As if to punish himself, he insisted on moving out of the Shen family and returned to the cottage he and his mother rented, and from then on, he never accepted any handouts from the Shen family. Grandpa came to see him several times and he avoided it, in his heart, it was he and the Shen family who forced his dearest mother to death, he hated the Shen family, and hated himself even more, in the dead of night, he often couldn't sleep, and when he was riddled with nightmares, he used a knife to cut his skin over and over again, and punished himself with pain, as if only in this way could he completely cut off his flesh and blood relatives from the Shen family.

Ling Che gently hugged Xiang Ke's shoulders and comforted him in a low voice: "It's all over, Auntie will not be happy if she looks at you now." ”

"It's all my fault, if I had been determined to be with my mother from the beginning, she wouldn't have left me." Xiang Ke said softly: "Later, I don't know why, I heard that soon after my mother's death, my father became depressed, first insane, and then committed suicide by jumping off the building. "Xiang Ke, do you think that the most pitiful person in the whole story is actually your father?" Ling Che sighed: "Maybe from the beginning, he didn't change his mind, but under the pressure of the family, in order to protect your mother and son, he had to marry a woman he didn't love at all, and he didn't even want to have a child with that woman." Until his aunt died, he also felt that he had nothing to love. The so-called life and death go hand in hand, and that's it. “

"If I were him, I would choose to stay by my mother's side and use my shoulders to hold up the sky for the woman I love, any reason is just an excuse for cowardice." Xiang Ke's eyes lit up, and he looked at Ling Che quietly, "Grandparents are old, I don't want the old man to leave this world with regrets, I want to ease relations with them." But I will never forgive that woman, no matter what her purpose was in marrying my father. ”